'Honkers' just office banter.HAVE women lost all humour, wit and feistiness now they've won the right to high earnings commensurate with their male colleagues? A couple of po-faced bints with an eye to the main chance of suing an investment bank for pounds 3 million because a male client used the word "honkers" to describe breasts. On another occasion, they allege To state, recite, assert, or charge the existence of particular facts in a Pleading or an indictment; to make an allegation. allege v. , a partner in their City of London firm laughed that the key to cheating on wives was not getting found out, and another added that women were best at home floor-cleaning. All these alleged insults are nothing of the kind, simply the lumbering attempt at wit men use to feel macho - and usually accompanied by a braying laugh that fades to a nervous titter tit·ter intr.v. tit·tered, tit·ter·ing, tit·ters To laugh in a restrained, nervous way; giggle. n. A nervous giggle. [Probably imitative. . If women like these complainants display sufficient financial nous to earn pounds 75,000 a year plus pounds 175,000 annual bonus then surely they can be expected to show a similar level of social skills. What they experienced is office banter, those sallies and barbs barbs the primary, delicate filaments that are given off the shaft of a bird's contour feather. They project from the rachis and bear the barbules. that lighten dullish days. No slight is meant. None should be taken. And doesn't this female umbrage taken explain the dearth of good female comedians? |
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